I see where one of the things Trump is doing

is freezing most federal pay raises which really doesn't bother me a whole lot.

There was once a time when people worked for the government for somewhat less than the same job in the private sector in return for a small pension when they got too old to work anymore. 

Those days are long gone. Now it's a pension after 20 years service AND a fatter paycheck then their equal in the private sector. They have their cake and eat it, too.

I have often said they ought to take another look at government employment because there are an awful lot of people that wind up collecting a lot longer than they worked.

If you look at someone that pulled a 20 and out retirement, lives to the age of 80 and retired at 40 they have been drawing a pension for twice the length they worked.

I have always believed pensions should be pair when someone can't work anymore and not when people are in their prime.

I have also believed the government should lay its employees at right about the equivalent of what the private sector pays and not much higher.

I have no problem with Trump holding up on giving federal employees a raise this year.


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